Michael Barton
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Barton is a Staff Bioinformatics Engineer with 18 years of experience building data-driven, automated solutions for genomics from academia to industry. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has led sequencing quality control and assembly efforts at the Joint Genome Institute and driven production-grade bioinformatics software at Zymergen and Karius. He champions modern software practices—unit testing, behavior-driven development, and CI—to accelerate releases and reduce human error in genomics pipelines. Michael blends statistical modelling and machine learning to replace intuition with scalable, automated QC systems, including an ensemble-based pipeline that outperforms manual review. Trained with a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester and an MSc from Newcastle, he sits at the intersection of computational rigor and production software delivery.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at The University of ManchesterMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Github Skills (200)
ruby10
linux10
golang10
rna-seq10
karabiner10
benchmarking10
predictor10
macos10
package-manager10
docker10
docker-engine10
homebrew10
bioinformatics10
ecosystem9
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nucleotides/nucleotides
Jun 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:421 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 10 months
benchmarkbioinformaticsbenchmarking
bioboxes/bioboxes-py
Apr 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:145 commits, 61 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year
python-librarypython
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